> > Agreed, the whole idea of porting to Yellow Dog Linux on Mac rather
> > than Mac OS X seems a little crazed. It doesn't really lead to
> > anything that is worth announcing (I can't imagine that a huge
> > percentage of Mac users are running linux rather than OSX).
>
> I don't understand this at all! It's also true to say that only a small
> minority of PC users run Linux!
Err, yes, but our enitre customer base is included in that small
percentage...!?
> I don't see why Mac users should get effort for a native port when there
> has been no suggestion of porting Starlink software to Windows --- due
> to immense technical problems.
Because a MacOS native port would probably take a couple of days, and
Starlink doesn't have to do it. JAC is prepared to do it for us, all TimJ
wants is Starlink Classic in CVS (or at worst a copy of the "real" source
code, not the shipped code) to do the port from...
It's quite possible all a MacOS X native port will consist of is some
makefile tweaks to the linux version. It might even just compile out of
the box, after all MacOS X is just BSD UNIX with a fancy GUI on top.
Unlike a Windows port, there are no immense technical problems to
overcome...
> Just why can't Mac users dual-boot???
You have used MacOS X, right? After using it, I don't particularly want to
use Linux, let alone dual boot a perfectly good Mac... ;)
Al.
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